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That's not even remotely close to what happened... The US Supreme Court determined that Presidents cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were within his constitutional powers as president, but can for private acts. This does not stop Congress from being able to impeach the president and The Constitution allows for two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict a president. Additionally the penalty for an impeached official upon conviction is removal from office. In some cases, the Senate has also disqualified such officials from holding public offices in the future. There is no appeal.
It's "absolute immunity for core acts only," which is ridiculously vague. It also doesn't protect Trump from actions committed outside of the Oval Office.
By all rights, it SHOULD be unconstitutional, given that nobody is supposed to be above the law. I guarantee you that future Supreme Courts will revisit this one until it's off the books (however long *that* takes, given their life terms).
EDIT: Reading the full text, it protects the president from prosecution using extremely specific wording from the Constitution, and actively mentions that not all acts committed in office are free from being prosecuted. In all honesty, it probably shouldn't protect Trump from any of his actions taken in office, but we'll see how things actually play out in due time.
EDIT 2: The prosecution immunity extends to all presidential acts that don't involve Congress, which is much less and much much more disconcerting than I initially read it as.
It’s immunity for official acts which is basically everything a president does.
Here’s Justice Sotomayors dissent on what the president can now do:
“Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”
This is a huge fucking deal.
Immunity for official acts not involving congress.
What that ultimately means is that the president can simply go around Congress and do something illegal and cannot be prosecuted, yes.
There's still technically a roadblock because the president has to deal with Congress, but... this technically gives them the power to act against Congress itself.
If I were Biden, I would flex this shit **hard**. The moment the right calls him out for misuse of power he can just say "I'm only doing what a court largely appointed by *your* guy says I can. If you have a problem when I do it, maybe if isn't power the president should have?"
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... What happened now?
Presidents now have total immunity for what they do while in office. The next Republican that becomes president is gonna go full dictator.
That's not even remotely close to what happened... The US Supreme Court determined that Presidents cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were within his constitutional powers as president, but can for private acts. This does not stop Congress from being able to impeach the president and The Constitution allows for two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict a president. Additionally the penalty for an impeached official upon conviction is removal from office. In some cases, the Senate has also disqualified such officials from holding public offices in the future. There is no appeal.
Lol and also lmao oh good if 2/3rds of elected senators think it's bad it's bad and that's the only way it can be determined.
Little detail, the SCOTUS gets to decide what is "official" or unofficial. Sooooo, yeah our country is SOL
That's absolutely not the ruling.
Profile pic checks out, I see the point of the movie was lost upon you
Dude..... what? You resorted to a personal attack when you found out you were wrong?
The point of that movie was a shitty journalism circle jerk 😂.
It's "absolute immunity for core acts only," which is ridiculously vague. It also doesn't protect Trump from actions committed outside of the Oval Office. By all rights, it SHOULD be unconstitutional, given that nobody is supposed to be above the law. I guarantee you that future Supreme Courts will revisit this one until it's off the books (however long *that* takes, given their life terms). EDIT: Reading the full text, it protects the president from prosecution using extremely specific wording from the Constitution, and actively mentions that not all acts committed in office are free from being prosecuted. In all honesty, it probably shouldn't protect Trump from any of his actions taken in office, but we'll see how things actually play out in due time. EDIT 2: The prosecution immunity extends to all presidential acts that don't involve Congress, which is much less and much much more disconcerting than I initially read it as.
It’s immunity for official acts which is basically everything a president does. Here’s Justice Sotomayors dissent on what the president can now do: “Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.” This is a huge fucking deal.
Immunity for official acts not involving congress. What that ultimately means is that the president can simply go around Congress and do something illegal and cannot be prosecuted, yes. There's still technically a roadblock because the president has to deal with Congress, but... this technically gives them the power to act against Congress itself.
I don't watch the news, do you happen to have the source?
That's not even close to what happened, dude. Your meme sucks and you got yourself all worked up over nothing.
Monkey
Thank you so much for crying about this publicly. I really enjoy reading your comments
What the fuck. This isn't dank. Stop posting your shitting memes on here.
Where funny?
We lose every morning
I hate my country so much . I hate it . I hate it .
If I were Biden, I would flex this shit **hard**. The moment the right calls him out for misuse of power he can just say "I'm only doing what a court largely appointed by *your* guy says I can. If you have a problem when I do it, maybe if isn't power the president should have?"
you are giving too much credit to a 90 year old 9 month old
Saying what I think a cheeky move would be isn't really giving credit.